The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 2

, Page Two THE DAILY WORKER FURRIERS TO. VOTE MONDAY AFTER DELAY Millstein Lote Out by Blocking Union The election for officers of Local 46 of the Fur Workers’ Union of Chicago was delayed Thursday night by the maneuvers of Jack Milletein, right wing businéss agent who at the. last moment usurped the authority of the union, declared the meeting scheduled to be held at the Capital Building “Siegal” and managed to stall; off his finish until Monday, when a vote is to be taken in a hall not yet an- nounced, Millstein Usurps Union Authority, When the furriers gathered at the Capital Building, the hall agent told them Millstein had been there.and in- formed him that the meeting. was “{ilegal,” a “bunch of Bolsheviks” and “gunmen,” and altho called by Sam Goldberg, president of Local 45, who had paid for the hall, the agent was fearful of some trouble and forced the union to hire another hall at 30 North Wells. St. Meantime, Milstein had called a 6 clock meeting of his own at the StateLake building, where about 25 @f his cronies and some honest but deluded followers spent two hours. Wil Vote Monday—Millstein Agrees. ‘The regular union meeting opened et 90 North Wells St. with President Sam Goldberg in the chair. Goldberg teld the $00 members present;that by yagreemant with Milistein, a vote should take place Monday at an open m a hall to be announced » The delay, said President Gold- ‘erg, was entirely becamse of Mill- ——_— and dictatorial ob- ‘The membership voted to approve ;@lewropesal to hold the election Mon- day, and to hold it in an open hall as has been the custom for years, Mill- stein had wanted to hold election in an office and use his own clique as tellers. But counting out of progres- "sive votes # too-old a trick to fool the Chicago turriers, ‘They-will not stand for it. So incensed et Milistein wers the members that many were heard to say that if the election took place on the spot, Millstein would have gotten about five votes, SENATOR NORRIS MAY HAND LILY - TO 1. LENROOT Badger Standpatter May Not Roost on Bench WASHINGTON, Sept. 17—In the hands of Senator Norris of Nebraska, leader of the progressive group in Congress, may rest the fate of Irvine L. Lenroot, Wisconsin standpat sena- tor defeated for renomination and now awaiting an appointive job at the hands of President Coolidge, Norris has succeeded the late Sen- ator Cummins of Iowa at the head of the republican list in the senate ju- diciary committee. Unless the admin- istration has him suddenly expelled from the party—as it expelled the elder LaFollette, Frazier and Brook- hart two years ago—he will become chairman of the judiciary committee when the senate meets in November. All presidential nominations to the federal bench are referred to that committee. Expect Place to Sit. Washington politicians believe that Lenroot will be named as a federal cirenit judge during the final weeks of the present congress. If that is done he will try to get Norris to agree that his confirmation shall be made in open session of the senate as an act of courtesy to a retiring senator. Nor- ris will have to yield to the claim of courtesy, or stand by his general rule of refusing to sanction the putting of an unfit man on the bench for a life term. Norris knows that Lenroot is bit- terly anti-labor, and that his presence on the federal bench would be a con- stant threat to union men who might strike. WCFL Radio Program Chicago Federation of Labor radio broadcasting station WCFL is on the air with regular programs. It is broadcasting on a 491.5 wave length from the Municipal Pier. TONIGHT. 6:00 p. m.--Chicago Federation of Labor talks and bulletins. 15 to 6:30—Fable Lady—Storles for children. 6:30 to 6:16—The Florentine String Trio; Little Joe Warner, character songs; Val, Sherman; Clarence Sullivan, | Alamo Cafe Orchestra, 10:00-——Hickey and Johnson, Alex Christensen, the jazz wae A. Olman, Clinton Keithley, 04 Hirsch} WCFL Ensemble, 00 to 2:00 a, m.-Alamo Cafe Orches- ‘“ yey) Entertainers. FOR RENT: Furnished Bed Room—Light, clean with a family of two comrades. 423 ‘Belden Ave, Rear, Second Flat, THESE FRIENDS OF THE DAILY WORKER HAVE HELPED. Here is a list of the first mE adatt to the “Keep the Daily Worker” Fund: CALIFORNIA— . H, Backus, San Francise CONNECT IcuUT— Abraham Epstein, Stamford FLORIDA— W. Theo. bak adi W. Richardson, iinois— Mrs, Lanna Belman, Chicage D. Haan, Chicago .. Andrew Holt, Chicago James Johnson, Chicago .. A. Podkin, Chicago .. M. Puchacz, Chicago Mike Slovick, Chicago John A. Cooney, Elmhurst . J, C. Williams,’ Homewood Ernst Ebel, Ingleside Geo. Yang, Valier INDIANA— Jos. T. Crandall, KANSAS— Auguste Fauvergue, Girard KENTUCKY — as. J. Brown, MASSACHUSETTS Harry J. Canter, Boston .. Louis F, Weiss, Sr., Boston MICHIGAN— Joseph ivec, Detrolt .... NEBRASKA— David Coutts, Omaha ... NEW JERSEY— Peter Fireman, Trenton ssescmeve- NEW YORK— Charles Burns, Brooklyn Woodward, Deland ... Dalton... gesesees praSewnds 838833 Evansville LOUISVIIO srssressemnee . Cooper, Brooklyn . Cooper, Brooklyn NEW YORK— Israel Josephson, Brooklyn Louis Neibrief, Brooklyn ... ©. Wennberg, ‘Brooklyn... Adolph Wirkkula, Brooklyn —. Gorki-ziva-Popin, Brooklyn —. Osias Bercy, New York City .. Anthony Soéclo, N John A. Thomas er, Dr. J. L. Higbie, Jenera.. Wm. Biemler, Sandusky Wm. Schmidt, Swanton John L, Pauvre, Zanesvii S.H. Coddingtdn, Young PENNSYLVANIA M. Fumich, Hesaiton H. Slamberg, MoKeesport Ivan Zilic, McKeesport commenen Ludwig Altschaffl, Reading woneW0. George Petrusik, Springdale ..--o. WISCONSIN Cc. F. Wu, Madison ... od Herbert Friedrichs, Milwaukee -. J. Kamiar, Milwaukee Giolamo Piccolo, Sam Rabinovitch, Milwau Edward Stadibauer, Milwau John Miller, Superior Paul Babich, West Aliis ~» I 2O9@S sans~pK~~p Senvysensss 32 83883888 88888 88883888 ssssssess3 83 Sesonsos WORKERS JAILED ON MOST FLIMSY CHARGES WHEN THEY SEEK TO LEAVE JOBS ON SOUTH TEXAS COTTON FIELDS FORT WORTH, Texas, September 17.—Charges of peonage in South Texas counties are being investigated Mark Parker, in jail on a charge of “swindling” and “extortion,” Mark Parker points out that he hired at Texarkana, Ark., to pick cotton for a farmer in Taft, Texas. The employment office shark told him that he would average three quarters of a bale to the acre and that he would receive $1.25 for every hundred pounds that: he picked. Promises were made to Parker that he would have transport- ation given him for one way if he worked on this farm until the crop was gathered in. Parker accepted the job. On his arrival at Taft, Parker and a num- ber of other workers were refused jobs by the man that was supposed to hire them. The labor agency then sold these men in bunches to cotton farmers of the vicinity. After working on a farm where pickings averaged but a quarter of a bale to the acre, Parker quit and went to work on another farm where he ‘was offered better wages. He had no sooner started work on the other farm when he was arrested for swindling. A ration charge of $12 was the basis of the extortion charge. Many complaints are being made by workers in Raymondville charg- ing that they are arrested on the most flimsy charges, fined the amount of their earnings. These workers are un- able to leave the fields. Those that leave their jobs and have not enough to board a train and leave the section are jailed on vagrancy charges and are then forced to work out their fines. Last yeer a similar case came up in @ coast county when 300 Mexican laborers were arrested by county au- thorities and mulcted of $5 each. A year or two before at Waxahachie several county officials were forced to resign on account of a similar scan- dai. The Texas department of labor is now dnvestigating the charges. “Say It with your pen In the worker correspondent page of The DAILY WORKER.” BATTLE OF CLIFTONVILLE, W. VA., RECALLED BY RELEASE OF FIVE MINERS FROM MOUNDSVILLE PEN MOUNDSVILLE, West Va., September 17.—The biggest unton labor defense case is drawing to a close with the release of five Pennsylvania miners from Moundsville penitentiary, is the only remainéng prisoner out of the 43 sentenced in Moundsville in 1922 for taking part in the march over the state line into the little scab town of Cliftonville in the West Virginia panhandle. Oe See Historic Battle, The Cliftonville battle was one of the bloodiest in the history of miners’ marches, Twelve company guards and a West Virginia county sheriff were slain and seyen union miners died on that memorable July 17, 1922. Hundreds of miners were later ar- rested in Washington county, Penn- sylvania and taken over the line to Wellsburg, county seat of Brook coun- ty, W. Va. Two hundred and ten men remained in jail a month; thirty more were sentenced to three-year terms; seven to terms of 4 to 7 years and six to 8 to 10-year terms. The men were gradually releaged on pa- role. » An Open Shop War, The march on Cliftonville illustrat- ed the high fighting spirit of the Pennsylvania miners, The great strike wave had swept over union and non- union flelds of Pennsylvania and the West Virginia panhandle, Then sud- denly the Richland Coal company, in West Virginia, but in the same un- fon district (No. 5) of the United Mine Workers, began scabbing, Strikebreakers were imported; un- ion families were evicted and took up quarters in a nearby tent colony, Company guards flooded the country- side and insulted the women and beat up the men. Strikcrs were barred from the public road that passed in front of their tent colony, Late the night of July 16 the Penn- sylvania miners began marching from the little town of Avella, Washington county, Pennsylvania, ten miles from CUftonville, Nearly a thousand were together. Dawn found .tham atop the hill bebind Ci »_ BIS aoabs Ap- , following the receipt of a letter from KLAN LEADER PRAISES REED AND W. BORAH Case of Punishment Fits the Crime WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. — The names of Senator William EB, Borah, of Idaho, and Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri, were proposed today as “available for the presidency” in 1928 by Dr. Hiram W. Evans, imperial wizard of the ku klux klan. Evans Grants Interview. Granting a political interview for the first time in the history of the klan, Evans endorsed both Reed and Borah as “first class, upstanding Americans,” whom klansmen would be glad to support. He served notice too that the klan would take an “ac- tive part in all elections, particularly the November congressional elections and two years hence in the president- ial campaign, West Is O. K. For Klan. “Who are available for the presi- dency?” he was asked. “There is Senator Reed,” replied Evans. “He is one of our greatest citizens. He is a champion of the con- stitution and American institutions.” “But he is wet,” it was suggested. “He's a great American just the same,” Evans replied, “Some times, a klansman will support a wet when pro- hibition is not an issue and when the candidate measures up to our stand- ards in other respects.” Joe Tracz—serving an 8-year term— proached the tipple and a deputation of union miners stepped forward and asked them not to work, Then the guards opened fire from @ nearby shack and an aged miner fell dead. The men fired back from the hill and the guards were chased away, Later came reinforcements and the miners retired. Arrests fol- lowed subsequently, The prisoners just released are George Cratz, Joe Diacz, John Kam- inske, Pete Radianko and Teddy Ru- raumsky. The prisoners’ families have been cared for by the Cliftonville Re- lef Committee, representing the lo- cal unions about Avella. Fred Siders, president of the Duquesne local ‘un- fon, heads the committee. Hundreds Fight Wall of Fire Caused by Breaking Oil Pipes PRINCEVILLE, Ill, Sept. 17.—. ter a 24-hour fight, in which Mendieta of residents of small towns in this vicinity participated, a veritable river ot fire, which spread for seven miles along North Creek and Spoon River, was extinguished today after it had destroyed two bridges and caused damage estimated at $10,000. The blaze started near this place when oil flowing from.two broken pipe lines became ignited. The blaz- ing oil, carried on the ai of the high waters in the river, spread out over the and 4 low: lands, threatening dwellipgs and oth: er RS MINA aha Boe | —_—- J] os —. FFTFFFRTFHFHE FOF eNOw’Y SO: TOS SS JERSEY STREET CARMEN RENEW WAGE CONTRACT Defeat Wage Cut But Give Up Any Raise By IRVING FREEMAN, Fed. Preés. NEWARK, N, J., Sept. 17. — By a vote of 2,574 to 1,268 the, trolleymen in Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth and six other cities in the northern half of New Jersey voted to agcept the pro- posal of the Public Si Corpora- tion of New Jersey, their employer, for a three-year renewal of the pres- ent wage contract on a 66-cent an hour wage basis. Slight improvement in working conditions include heated cars, Company Tried Wage Cut. The company’s earlier demand for ® 10-cent an hour cut was met with a strike vote. ‘The men countered with a demand for a 15-cent wage increase, A strike loomed; all efforts to get company officials in conference failed till early September, when executives of the Amalgamated Association of Electric and Street Railway Employes met with the local workers’ committee and an officer of the company. Compromise Demands. The compromise by which each side waived its wage demands—the com- pany giving up the demand for a re- duction and the workers their's for an inerease—was put thru at last, The men had been protesting that their 65- cent an hour wage was Jower than the average scale in the large cities of the country, but Thomas Fitzgerald, Wil- liam Werner and other members of the union executive board argued that the company was in poor financial con- dition and this was the best the men could get. Newark men favored a strike, reports had it, but they were converted, CURRENT EVENTS By T. J. O'Flaherty. (Continued from: page 1) formed that the queen will be accom- panied by a suite of:seventeen per- sons. Unless people have taken liber- ties with Marie’s reputation Aimee McPherson had better look to her laurels. It would be,rather to the point if a group of American workers met the Leviathan in New York with placards asking the queen what she intends to do with fhe hundreds of Roumanian peasants sho are rotting in jails in their native’country, while the parasite queen is jaunting over the world, 7 e e's HE Knights of ‘Columbus have is- sued a leaflet in connection with their campaign to raise a million dol- lars for a little private war on Mexico. The Mexicans are called “christ hat- ers,” “assassins,” and “cut-throats.” Those gallant gentlemen who have endorsed the bloody reign of the mur- derer Mussolini, the supporters of a church that has dug the brains out of every people who were unfortu- nate enough to come under its way, these worshippers of sacred shin bones, dirty water and clay images, have the colossal impudence to seek the destruction of the Mexican repub- lic because it has declared war on su- evolution or socialism, eee the knights are willing to accept financial support from non- catholics in this crusade the catholic eatechism tells us that only those who are baptised in that faith have the slightest chance of breaking thru the pearly gates, It is some consolation for those contributing christians who did not select the right parents, to know, that even when they are roast- ing their shins at the devil’s toasting irons, the dollars ‘they gave the Knights. of Columbus to reintroduce darkness into Mexico’ will have saved many human beings ‘from a belief in evolution od socialism, CHINESE GENERAL TO OFFER ARMED RESISTANCE TO ENGLISH ADVANCE SHANGHAI, Sept. 17—Reports emanating from Peking, according to a Toho news agency report, says that General Yang-sen hae telegraphed the foreign office that he will offer armed resistance to the second British naval expedition, which, according to reports, Is being formed to go to the rescue of selzed British cargo boats on the Yangtze river, The reports quote General Yang-sen as saying he will fight “to the last ditch.” RALLY LABOR IN KELLOGG LODGES FIGHT AGAINST | COMPLAINT WITH N.Y. INJUNCTION (Continued from page 1) waged by 40,000 cloakmakers in New York City against the greed of their employers and in an effort to elimt- nate chaos and demoralization in their industry. For 12 weeks ovr mempers have beaten back, by their solidarity on the picket line and by their en- thusiasm and inspiration every at- tempt by the employers to break the strike which involves principles fought for not only by cloak unions but by entire organized labor of America. Capitalist Government Mixes In. “These savage onslaughts against the striking cloakmakers have failed, until now, in every instance. Efforts to bring the pressure of the police, the district attorney's office, the may- or and the governor upon our work- ers have failed. Wholesale arrests have failed. Threats of compulsory arbitration have failed. Intimidation and violence by hired gunmen have failed. Now, desperate, the manufac- turers have played their last card— an injunction. A Menace to All Unions, “You need not be reminded of the traditional opposition of organized la- bor to the use of the injunction to break up peaceful picketing. We know that injunction against picket- ing is a deadly menace, stripping 1a- bor of every one of its constitutional guarantees, Should the injunction be made permanent, it will prove a blow not only against the cloakmakers of New York but against the entire la- bor movement of America. 40,000 Strikers Invite You. “You are, therefore, respectfully urged to have your organization fully represented at a demonstration called by the New York board of Cloak, Skirt, Dress and Roofer Makers’ Unions at Madison Square Garden next Tuesday at 5:30 p. m. We are sure that you will be glad of this op- portunity to join us in a reply to the latest tactics of a desperate, em- ploying group who insist upon deny- ing 40,000 men and women the right to live. “Very fraternally, “Louis Hyman, general manager. Shut Scab Shops. In the meantime, the cloak union announces success in closing shops started out of town to supply non- union cloaks during the course of the strike. In Poughkeepsie yesterday workers downed tools in a shop op- erating for Wilkins and Adler of Man- hattan, an industrial council manufac- turer. Employers of the shop, the union announced, became so incensed at the work of pickets that they have applied for an injunction to stop their activity. In Philadelphia, the out of town _|committee of which Jacob Halperin is in charge, succeeded in stopping the shops of the Strauss company, the Lastick company and the “rm of M. Isenberg, the latter working for Spray- regen and Marks, also an Industrial Council member. In New London, Conn,, a shop working for a New York jobber was also shut down tight. Killed By Lightening, WINNIPEG, Man., Sept. 17, — Ed Willis, a farmer, his wife and two children were instantly killed by, a lighting bolt that struck just outside their farm house near Rama, Saskat- chewan, according to word received here today. (Continued from page 1) the attention of the miners to a little incident that occurred in the fall of 1922 which shows that Fishwick, with Farrington, paid to Jaék Brown, a boss for the Peabody Coal Company at An- drews, Illinois, the sum of $320.50 as compensation for slugging a delega- tion of Collinsville ‘miners on the streets of Springfield, The slugging followed a strike of the miners in behalf of Tom Mooney, who was then threatened with execu- tion in the well-known frame-up in connection with the preparedness pa- rade fatality in San Francisco, Far- rington declared the strike illegal and in conjunction with the Peabody Coal - |Company and the operators went to work to crush it. Reign of Terror, The strikers were blacklisted, char- ters were lifted and a general orgy of terror was turned loose by Farring- ton. This is where the Peabody slug: ger comes in, and this is where Fish- wick is found tied up’ with the now discredited Farrington, On September 1, 1922, Harry Fish- wick wrote to Jack , the Pea- body boss, and encl 4 with the let- ter a note for $160 Aligned by Fish- wick and The note reads: a: aoa rol ’ ia ; tometer pu han a a Harry Fishwick Exposed With Farrington for the first time this afternoon, hence the enclosed note, “Sincerely yours, “Harry Fishwick.” Fishwick and Farrington, This letter and note to “Slugger” Brown coincides with the time of the year that nominations for district of- ficial positions are made in the bien- nial elections, Whether Fishwick was on the Pea- body payroll with Farrington or not, enough has been shown even in this brief article to convince the Illinois miners that they must get rid of the Farrington brood, bag and baggage. Tt should not be forgotten that John L, Lewis, who now poses as a savior of the Illinois Miners’ Union from Farrington, aided and abetted the lat- ter in persecuting the militants in the district. First of Several Articles. ‘This is only the first of several arti- cles which will appear in The DAILY WORKER from time to time between now and the district elecflons, on Fish- wick, Farrington, Lewis, Sneed and the reactionary bureaucracy and what they stand for. Tho articles, on the other hand, will aye the program of the district candi wick-Lewis-Farrt the international led by John J fonlon, MEXICAN GOVT, (Special to The Dally Worker) WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—The kill- ing of Jacob Rosenthal, a wealthy American, by a band of bandits, wae seized upon as al excuse by the state department to lodge a representation with the Mexican government calling for adequate protection for American citizens, Secretary Kellogg, a bitter enemy of Mexico announced that he would await a complete report before decid- ing on making a demand for indem- nity and other redress. Expressed Regret. The Mexican government has al- ready expressed its regret for the in- cident to the American charge 4’af- faires in Mexico City and assurances were conveyed that every effort had been made by the federal authorities to rescue the kidnaped man. The federal troops killed two of the bandits in a sharp battle. The remainder killed Rosenthal im re venge. The kidnaping of Rosenthal was be- lieved to be a plot to discredit the Calles administration. . se Urged Indians to Revolt, NOGALES, Ariz., Sept. 17.—Charg- ed with participating in the revolt of the Yaqui Indians, Monsignor Juan Navarette, bishop of the state of So- nora, was exiled today in a manifesto issued by the state government of Sonora. The manifesto, it was re- ported, was issued upon instructions from Mexico City. Reports trickling in thruout the day indicated general maneuvering of the Mexican troops in the vicinity of Vicam, and the retreat of the Indians toward the mountains. eee Bishop Arrested. EL PASO,, Texas, Sept. 17.—Bishop Eschavarria, ‘ the diocese of Saltil- lo, state of Cilla, Mexico, has been taken to M°'* City under arrest, charged by feveral authorities to have cireulated hand bills inciting parish- oners to refuse to send their children to public schools, according to dis- patches received here. LOSTOUTON PAJAMA DANCE SAYS STUDENT (Special to The Daily Worker) POTOMAC, Ill, Sept. 17. — An ad- mission that the major premise of his articles attacking the morality of uni- versity undergraduates—the gpicy bit concerning co-educational sleeping following a pajama dance in Pullmans en route to a university football game, was gleaned from hearsay, came from the lips of the man of the hour, Wil- fred O. Cross, episcopal divinity stu- dent, at his home here today, He declared, with something of the man-about-town air that he had par- ticipated in some of the “parties” and “hot dates” of which he wrote but admitted that he had missed out on the pajama orgy. “On the Chicago campus, as well as other campus he said, “It seems everybody gets drunk. It seems to he the present form or relaxation.” y' CROWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 17. — William A, Donaldson, 33, “Love slayer” was sentenced to life im- prisonment here today a short time after a jury had found him guilty of first degree murder for the slaying of Joseph Mullins, husband of his sweetheart, Virginia Mullins, BUILD THE DAILY WITH A SUB. serene etree eRe ST nS W. P, MEETINGS PROSCRIBED BY BOSTON POLICE Ban Engdahi Meeting from Common By . D, LEVINE. (Special to The Dally Worker) BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 17.—Boston police have established a proscribed district for Workers (Communist) Party meetings which included the famous Boston Commons, where J. Louis Engdahl, editor of The DAILY WORKER, had been announced to speak in the local state and congres- sional campaign. No Notloe of Ban. The territory from which Commu- nist meetings were banned accord- ing to police pronouncement included the city’s fourth police district, cov ering the principal downtown section. The first indication that Bert Mil- ler, Boston organizer of the Work- ers (Communist) Party, had that the police were directing their attack against the Communist congressional campaign was when he arrived at West and Tremont streets, on the edge of Boston Common, ready to open the meeting. Instead he was met by Sergeant James O'Neil, who afinounced that he had orders from headquarters to stop the meeting, not only on Boston Common but everywhere thruout this police dis- trict. Miller and Engdahi went to the po- lice station to learn the motives back of this new gag rule. They were told by Lientenant John F. Dobbyn, in charge, that he would give no fur ther information; that he had re ceived orders from higher up that no meeting would be permitted, and that the only recourse was to see Superintendent of Police Michael Crowley in the morning. Socialist Party Let Alone, All the time Alfred Baker Lewis, the New England organizer of the socialist party, was holding a meeting unmolested only a short distance from where the Communist meeting was planned. ‘When approached by Organizer Miller, who asked that he protest against the breaking up of the Com- munist meeting, Lewis announced what had happened, denounced the Police action and then continued his address. Not to be outdone by the police, Organizer Miller announced the hold- ing of a meeting at Scollay Square, in another police district. At this meeting both Miller, acting as chair man, and Engdahl stressed the reve- lations brought out in the hearing for a@ new trial in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. It is believed that the ban on the Communist meetings grew out of the damning facts against the United States government brought out by the Sacco-Vanzetti hearings, showing that the Palmer-Wilson re gime in 1920 deliberately framed-up Sacco and Vanzetti on a murder case in an attempt to “dispose of them,” according to admissions in affidavits made by two ex-agents of the depart- ment of justice. Inquest Into Death * : Of Eight Workers in ° “Dp: Missouri River Tube (Special to The Dally Worker) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 17. —In- quests were to be held today over the bodies of eight workmen who yester- day lost their lives in an explosion and were entombed in a tunnel 500 feet below the middle of the Missourt River, The first of the bodies was recovered shortly after midnight last night and the seven others were brought to the surface soon after- ward. Dynamite, which at first was believed to have caused the explosion was found intact when workers drill ed thru rock and clay to the bodies, Gas {s blamed for the disaster, Indict Four in Hall-Mills Murder SOMERVILLE, N. J., Sept. 17.—The Somerset county grand jury returned four indictments in the Hall-Mills mur- der case. No names were announced, The action followed the unexpected calling of the April panel this morning, and the hearing of all the important witnesses in the investigation. GROUP OF NOTABLES WIRE PROTEST TO POLISH LEGATION AT WASHINGTON Signed by a group of leading progressives and radicals: of the country, a telegram has just been sent to the Polish legation at Washington protesting jalnst the Imprisonment of thousand: urging full amnesty. The signers of the messa; of Polish workers and peasants and declare that unless this Is granted they will participate In a national movement of publicity and agita- tion against the present rule of terror in Poland, ‘The telegram reads as follows: “Polish Legation, Washington, D. C.: “In the Interest of freedom of political opinion we protest against the continued Imprisonment of six thousand workers and peasants of Poland for thelr views and political activities and urge full amnesty without disorimina- tion. If this Is not granted we shall organize nation-wide agitation to make American sentiment known. Copy of Bartel. this has been cabled Prime Minister “Upton Sinclalr, Roger N. Baldwin, Professor Robert Moras ‘Lovett, Charlotte Anita Whitney, Sara Bard Field, Colonel 6, E. 8. Wood, E, ©, Wentworth, Willlam Bouck, Elizabeth » Gurley Flynn, Ellen Hayes, Robert W. Dunn, William He Holly, Ralph Chea” ne ae 9 oy" * aa